It all started with an article in a news paper about Indian women and their long hair.Yes !! The article actually sparked few thoughts in my mind..
India is the land of goddess and gods and with ancient traditions. I love those monuments of goddess in the Indian temples with very long locks. Every Indian women is proud to have their beautiful lustrous long hair touching their waist until our previous generation ie.Our Mother..Yes!! The story indeed begins here..Do we see those Indian ladies with long hair anymore?? The answer is "no".However this platform is not the debate of why Indian women should or should not have long hair..But more precisely about some transitional cultural values of Indian society.
This gets interesting here though. while the article says the statistics says that more and more western women prefer to have long hair and due to which the hair wig industry is booming in west.And the hair that is supplied to these countries are actually from India ..Well with Indian women playing diverse roles in their life whether a working women,a mother or a wife in the midst of everything the time to take care of their long hair is minimizing. Short hair means short maintenance. Men being the financial provider in early Indian society and women being at home gave the ancient Indian women enough time to take care of their lovely long hair..But with society changing women mostly contributes equally to the family and being a provider she has many more rolesto play in her life. In west however the trend is shockingly different.Most of the western women are prefering long hair and they are going for hair implants etc to get the look..
This is a very interesting fact for me.India in past 10 years and India in next 10 years I can see the transition and these transition are actually not miniscale instead its radical..Indian women and their long hair is just one of the transition I would say!! Leaving you all with that thought..!!
India is the land of goddess and gods and with ancient traditions. I love those monuments of goddess in the Indian temples with very long locks. Every Indian women is proud to have their beautiful lustrous long hair touching their waist until our previous generation ie.Our Mother..Yes!! The story indeed begins here..Do we see those Indian ladies with long hair anymore?? The answer is "no".However this platform is not the debate of why Indian women should or should not have long hair..But more precisely about some transitional cultural values of Indian society.
This gets interesting here though. while the article says the statistics says that more and more western women prefer to have long hair and due to which the hair wig industry is booming in west.And the hair that is supplied to these countries are actually from India ..Well with Indian women playing diverse roles in their life whether a working women,a mother or a wife in the midst of everything the time to take care of their long hair is minimizing. Short hair means short maintenance. Men being the financial provider in early Indian society and women being at home gave the ancient Indian women enough time to take care of their lovely long hair..But with society changing women mostly contributes equally to the family and being a provider she has many more rolesto play in her life. In west however the trend is shockingly different.Most of the western women are prefering long hair and they are going for hair implants etc to get the look..
This is a very interesting fact for me.India in past 10 years and India in next 10 years I can see the transition and these transition are actually not miniscale instead its radical..Indian women and their long hair is just one of the transition I would say!! Leaving you all with that thought..!!
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